Posted on 07/02/2012 5:00:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
You would have thought that Chief Justice John Roberts had shouted "fire" in a crowded theater. In upholding Obamacare, he set off a headlong race for the exits by the same lobbying groups -- believe it or not -- that had cut deals with the administration to create the legislation. Back then, the lobbyists were telling each other: If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. Now the bodies are piling up in the doorway as those who pandered to the president trample over each other in their haste to get out of the blazing or crumbling structure that is Obamacare.....
As reported on the front page of this weekend's Wall Street Journal, every one of the health-care industry groups that signed on to Obamacare in 2009 is looking for a way out.
Hospital groups now say they want Congress to peel back $155 billion in payment cuts that they agreed to in 2009. Representatives of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Aetna, Inc., and Humana Inc. say they need greater freedom to adjust premiums to reflect risk. Medical-device companies are making a new push to roll back their 2.3% tax. Hotels, retailers, and restaurant chains are clamoring for a two-year delay in enforcement of a requirement that they cover full-time workers or pay a penalty, giving them until 2016 to comply.
Implement-and-improve, the Democrats are now saying in indicating a new willingness to make election-year concessions in revising the hated law. Or as the president put it on Thursday: "The highest court in the land has now spoken. We will continue to implement this law. And we'll work together to improve on it where we can."
But the race to the exits by doctors, hospitals, drug makers, insurers and others...
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Because they've deemed themselves the ruling elite.
I believe it was Huckabee that said, “business owners should have a sit down talk with their employees. Vote for BO and I will be forced to drop your health care coverage and you can seek your own alternative or vote for Romney and keep your company paid insurance. Which is it?”
Kudos to Donald Trump for seeing the big picture.
It’s what we get when so many fail to vote,this may be the last chance they have to vote.
Democrats must be caught up in that syndrome we always see when disasters happen. People always say that they never knew “these things” could happen to them or in their neighborhood, etc. Why do people think things can’t happen to THEM?
People need to learn that there is no such thing as FREE stuff without someone else being enslaved.When they demand that they get things for free, they are advocating slavery for someone else. When we say America is a FREE country we are not talking about providing products and services without charge.
The Choom Roach Motel — The roaches check in, but they never check out.
“Actually the reverse may be in effect. Obama gets the cash in exchange for waivers and exemptions”
Rats—you’ve just drained my half full glass. I keep forgetting there is no honor in the man named barak hussein obama. So far, he’s proven to me he’s a LIAR, thief and murderer.
My wife’s doctor just retired early because of ObamaTax (as Rush calls it). My son has gone with a concierge doctor who has left his practice and hospital. My eye doctor friend in FL is retiring because of ObamaTax. We are going into a world of pain. If the Republicans don’t ride this to victory in November their party deserves to be buried.
The fiscal justification for ObamaCare was partly based on a list of voluntary sacrifices on the part of health insures, pharmaceutical makers, hospital and physician associations. This was a fragile alliance based on threats by the White House of even more draconian regulations. What health insurers got out of the deal was a four or five-year window of orderly withdrawal from the industry with their assets intact. After that a single-payer system would replace them.
I wonder how many democrats will vote to repeal AFTER the 2012 elections?
Thanks for the link. I have a younger brother who works for the Department of the Army. He says many people he talks to are worried military personnel and their families will be put in the exchanges or put on Medicaid.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.